The notion of ends and means depends on intent as mediated by causality. Your end: save a 100 people. Your means: kill 1 person. The goal (save 100) i...
Well if that's how you see it, fine. In my universe, a much smaller one in comparison to yours, Being is not discussed. I probably lack the vocab to d...
Well, Being ultimately devolves into linguistics. The subjective aspects of Being can't be communicated and hence your project "to bring it into deepe...
You wouldn't know what I'm talking about, mon ami. There's a lot of subjectivity in it, enough to void any objective analysis of self/being (same thin...
:lol: You've discovered yourself. Frankly speaking, I recommend you develop your theory of information in more depth. At present it seems its definiti...
Leibniz and Newton both hit upon the idea known to us as calculus without sharing notes. This is convergence at its best. In nonmathematical domains, ...
Aah! I see. The numbers do add up but don't they? Nevertheless, you make a good point - the benefits (probably) outweigh the harms if we bring racial ...
We're social animals, so they say, and given that, aloneness is distressful. It looks like Maslow was right on the money, even though his hierarchy of...
Some people are just there to fill up the available slots - they don't actually care what happens, who wins/loses. Others take joy in only participati...
A good yardstick for whether aliens will see the world in the same way as we do is mathematics (the independent discovery of pythagoras' theorem by mu...
If you read my other posts, you would've seen that I attributed the problem at hand to slavery (impoverishment of blacks and residual, pernicious, rac...
That is the truth but not the whole truth - I made it a point to mention the legacy of slavery (impoverishment over generations, combined with residua...
Superb summary of what transpired betwixt you and @"Gnomon". The salient points (of contention) highlighted for the audience's benefit, kudos. Gnomon'...
Smith doesn't know that he himself has 10 coins in his pocket and so when he "infers", from the interviewer's statement that Brown'll be hired, that t...
Si, si señor, the feelings, they swell up and you know what happens next. Somebody has to sit down, pore through the data, analyze it, and present to ...
I don't experience myself and if by "this person" you mean me, there's no this person in my (rather sad) life. The person who experiences anything, in...
Well, I'm not saying the situation as it stands isn't due to past injustices (slavery has cast a long shadow). What I am saying though is African Amer...
:up: I prefer your yin in yang and yang in yin idea. @"Gnomon" is on the right track then - there's religion in science and there's science in religio...
But my argument from probability does explain the apparent racism in the police force. We can take this further (using mathemagic) and check if police...
@"Andrew4Handel" If you're a theist, pray. If you're an atheist, don't pray. If you're an agnostic, neither pray nor don't pray. What exactly is that?...
I'm trying to understand/investigate the logic behind what people call racial profiling which to my reckoning is probabilistic/statistical. We use the...
@"180 Proof" Imagine a village of 100 people, 50 are Christians and 50 are Muslims. Of the 50 Muslims, 20 are criminals and of the 50 Christians, 30 a...
@"john27" You mean to say there's only one self. Perhaps then to take into account your position, I could say there are 2 impressions/images of the on...
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